Rensselaer Republican, Volume 27, Number 10, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 1 November 1894 — The Pilot’s Rank Dishonesty. [ARTICLE+ILLUSTRATION]

The Pilot’s Rank Dishonesty.

Whatever happens next Tuesday, don’t fail to turn out and vote. Fusion is Confusion. It is abandonment of principle for the hope of office. Now is the time to spot it. A vote against either Phares for senator or Spitler for representative, is a vote to continue the existence of the infamous gerrymander. Against the still-hunt, surreptitious, undcrhandc i, midnight methods of the fusionists, the Republicans Of Jasper county have made a grand, aggressive, open and above-board daylight campaign. They deserve success, and we dmi i, not will have it.

Voter, have you had enough of tariff smashing to suit you. J lf so vote for Jethro A. Hatch for congress. By returning him you help to swell the- Republican majority to the next hou&e of Representatives, and by so doing \ou check all further legislation on the tariff for the next two years. If you return a Demociatio house, tariff agitation will continue. Their leaders have said so.

. The great zeal of the Populists who as it is said, will go twelve miles to a school house meeting, is thought by some to be remarkable. It is not, however. The leaders all want office, and want them bail, an 1 the rank and file are well-meaning but deluded beings i can be made everlastingly rich and prosperous by acts of legislation—that the millenium can be inaugurated by a resolution of congress. :

Let no Republican so far forget himself as to be away from his precinct on November 6th. It sometimes happens that through forgetfulness, voters arrange trips that include election day, and fail to be at the polls in that way. Do not do that this time. Seldom before has an election been of so much importance to the state and nation as the coming one will be, and seldom before has it been of such importance that every Repub’ican should cast his vote and see that his neighbor does the j same.

The Republicans of Jasper county, have before now, been “bamboozled” into electing several so-called independents or third party men against the regular Republican nominers. "Where are thosa men TTow J--1 Every man Jack of them is now a rock-root* d Democia% of course. And when the inevitable break-up • comes of the Populist party, every man that gets office through it, will go to the DemOu ..tie party. Stick a pin here, Republicans. The couuty d: bt of Jasper county is $5,000. The average debt of 31 leading Democratic counties, is $115,000, just 23 times as large as Jasper’s. Each of these counties pays every year more interest, on the average, on their county debts, than the v hole of Jasper county’s debt Is there any Republican in Jaspfr county th e&n be deceived by the clamor \he l J ilot in this matter.

Above all things, Republicans, be on your gmfrd against campaign falsehoods, of Tall descriptions. The fusionists are desperate for offices and will Step at nothing to gain their ends.

Dan Yoorhees is a man of high rank in the senate in these three ■** respects, at least. He is the rankest demagogue ih the senate. He is the rankest copperhead in the senate. He is the rankest whiskey soak in the senate. ■——g, A vote for Perry Washburn for "BtHtenseuator is a vole Tor Dan Voorhees for United States senator. In no other one way, on earth, can Bny Republican (or Prohibibitionist either) more disgrace his political principles than by voting directly or indirectly for Dan Yoorhees for United States senator.

The county is in debt, temporarily at that,.#s,ooo, on an assessed valuation of over six million dollars. Thus the debt is less than one tenth of one per cent, of the property, or less than 10 cents on the SIOO. Will the fusion candidates, if they are elected do any better, or nearly as well ? If the way they have run their own jiffairs furnishes a pretty fair guide as to the way they will manage the affairs of the public, it is safe to say they will not do nearly as well. Some of them are good enough businessmen, but a considerable number of them are not. Even the bst of them could not do better than the Republican candidates will, and some of them will surely do much worse | §

State Chairman Taggart, of the Democratic committee, has been hooding the state with a circular printing in type made to resemble the letters of a type-writer, the intention being to make Democratic gulls believe, they were the recipients of a personal letter from Taggart. The circular is full of the most enormous and audacious li s, a sample of which being the statement that Congress has out down appropriations $60,000,000 a year. .1 he difference in the total appropriations of the last two sessions of Congress, the- first Republican and the last Democratic, as shown by official statements, is just S2B- - This is a good deal less than $60,000,00U in reduction, find a little more, came off from pension appropriations, it will BIT seen how much credit, or rather discredit, the Democrats are entitled to for their reductions of apptop nations. It may be that the Pilot and its crowd will succeed in making the, people believe that it is such a dreadful thing that our county is temporarily in debt the sum of $5,C00, but we think not. The people are of common sense. They consider that scores of fine iron bridges have been built. That large sums have recently been well spent on road grades and on ditches; on improvements to the court house, and on and about the public square, on the county poor farm, including s large addition to the land of the same. Also that the county has been compelled, by operation of law, to advance large sums for the preliminary expenses of proposed ditches. Furthermore, they consider the comparative financial condition of other counties of the state. Take 31 of the most reliably Democratic counties in Indiana. Figure up their county indebtedness, as shown by the last published report of the state statistician, and their aggregate county indebtedness is $3,653,000.00, and their average debt for each and every county will bo $115,000. This is just twenty-three times as large as Jasper’s county’s little $5,000. All of their debts are genuine county debts, no gravel road or ditch bonds boiugincluded. Most of it also is long time bonded debt, drawing large interest. The average yearly interest paid by everyone of these Democratic counties is more than Jasper county’s entire debt.

Our putatively populistic and palpably Democratic neighbor, the Pilot, answers our reference, of last week, to those sample high tax Democratic counties, Cart oil and LaPorte, by some misleading figures about two other strongly Democratic counties, Pulaski and Franklin. It quotes from the state auditor’s report of 1892. Now these two counties practice that very common Democratic dodge of dividing their county taxes up into several funds. Such as county tax, proper, bridge tax, road tax, bond tax, etc., all of which, in Jasper county are collected under one head, as county tax. Thus in Pulaski county, which it tays, pajs $14,639 less county tax than Jasper, if it had looked at the column headed “Miscellaneous Taxes” it would have found that the figures were as much higher than in Jasper as the figures under the head of “county tax” were lower. The same thing applies to Franklin county, only more so.

The last published report of the lodiaDa Bureau of statistics is the proper place to look for figures comparing the relatives expenses of counties. In that, for the very year the Pilot refers to, he will find, on pages 548 and 549 a table giving the exact official figures of county expenditures. And this is what he will find. Total expenditures, Jasper county . $25,079 Total expenditures, Pulaski county .$37,547 D fference inJasper’s favor $12,468 And when it is remembered that Jasper county has, not one million as the Pilot sa;> s, but very nearly two million dollars more property to levy taxes upon than has Pulaski, the comparative difference in Jasper’s favor becomes still greater. These official and undbputable figures show that Pulaslu county’s rate of county taxes is at least twice as high as in Jasper county.

The Pilot's figures for Franklin county are just a,3 wide of the truth. The county expenditures of Franklin for that year, 1892, were $38,471.

This, instead of being, as the Pilot Says, sl4 070 less than Jasper’s, is actually, $i3,230, more than Jasper. Did anyone ever hear of any moiv outrageous misstatements of the facts, for political purposes, than these of the Pilot, as here shown? And even for Republican Newton county, the Pilot mis-states the figures, for its nefarious purposes! The total county expenditures of Newton Co., for 1892, were only sl,325 less than Jasper’s, yet it says that Newton’s were $10,156 less. The stat'-ments about Pulaski and Franklin, were 100 per cent, false. This one about Newton is 800 per cent, false.'

It says, also, Newton’s total taxables are two millions more than Jasper. They are, as a matter of fact, less than a million more than Jasper’s.